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Masood Ahmad
ParticipantHi Jim,
Check these:
—- The script I was talking about —-
https://kasyan.ho.com.ua/make_hyperlinks_from_urls.htmlhttps://creativepro.com/understanding-indesigns-hyperlink-formatting.php
https://creativepro.com/free-script-to-automate-adding-visible-urls.php
Hope these might help!
ParticipantHi Jim, there is a script that converts the URLs to hyperlinks. I will provide the link tomorrow.
ParticipantParticipantI tried your trick by:
1) Creating a two column text frame.
2) Selecting some paragraphs from the first column and Span-Split it into two columns (including before and after blank lines as you said)
3) Deselecting and re-selecting the text in the Split columns (excluding the first and last blank lines) and making it Span-Single Column.…well it works, but not in a practical environment.
The trick as asked by Rivkah and as suggested by Obi is to avoid multiple para styles and using one instead. Whereas the trick as explained by you is an extra effort.
ParticipantHi Kai, thanks for sharing the history of it.
As you said:
@ Masood and David: This works not only with one column, it works e.g. with two columns too. The trick is, to stick the list-elements together, e.g. span in 2, set breaking options to stick all paras together.You’re right, you can create two or more columns in a single text frame using the Span Columns feature but it won’t work if you create 2 columns from the Text Frame Options.
…as David and I said:
Yes, you are correct: This particular trick only works with a single column text frame.Kai, can you share the script here, I would like to try it.
ParticipantYes, I missed that. For me it is not easy to read on a cellphone and respond simultaneously. But I’m trying to.
@David, that’s exactly I came up with. But again it is a great feature indeed when working with Single Column text frame.
ParticipantOuch! There was something striking in my mind last night (my time) when I was reading and replying to the post from my cell phone. I was away from my Computer and hence didn’t tested it.
The feature works great if it is a single column and won’t if you make it 2 or more columns using the ‘Text Frame Options’ dialog box. The ‘Span Columns – All’ feature will keep the text span upto the frame width and won’t adapt the columns sizes. To flow the text as per the columns, you’ll make it ‘Single Column’ under the ‘Span Columns’ options and then you won’t be able to apply before/after spaces.
So you’re left with going back to the stone age… i.e. creation of multiple paragraph styles :(
ParticipantThat’s great.
Well I’m not sure but I think it is not possible with ebooks. Let’s see what others have to say on this.
ParticipantTry recreating the variables.
ParticipantDo let me know if you found something new!
ParticipantIn your BL style remove before/after space and add the Span option to it as shown in the snapshot by David. Set the ‘Span’ to ‘All’ columns and set the before/after space. Finally apply it to all the bulleted bunch of text.
ParticipantHey David, that’s a cool idea and as you said “outside the box”, very interesting indeed!
To be honest I haven’t dreamed of that ‘Span Columns’ could be use this way and you’ll agree with me that most of the InDesign users are unaware of this great feature and would have been using the’Span Columns’feature with Columns only.
Dwayne, your approach was correct and I too making multiple styles to overcome this issue. I have some handbooks enriched with Bullet Lists. I’ll now correct all of them.
Obi, I do not want to go into a debate but it would have been nice if you could have explained it rather than waiting for someone to explain.
I believe that knowledge can be increased by sharing it. This is the reason why we are here. I have learned a lot here from Great Masters including You.ParticipantRegarding the error, I think you have to change the single quote signs with Straight Quote signs
'ParticipantPeter, you’re right. This will definitely find the Greek Character followed by a Latin Character including a space and punctuation marks as you said. This means that it will also find all the instances of space between two Greek words?????
@Joel, you can’t do Replace All with this code, you have to check one by one…
Participant@Kai, Thanks a lot for describing it so nicely. But I still think that a shading with Tables should have been noticed by the Adobe. They have a team of exports who could have avoided this easily.
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